Yelena Yakovleva's son - first he got tattoos, then he decided to get them together
As a teenager Denisthe son of the famous actress Elena Yakovleva, nailed on his right arm the image of a pet - a husky named Dick. Elena asked her son if it hurt, and he admitted that it hurt a lot...
However, the pain was not a hindrance to the next tattoos. The boy soon started earning his own money, and most of his money went to new tattoos. After a while the images even appeared on his face. On his right arm, he first tattooed a skull and roses, and then decided to paint over these drawings with black.
Denis' appearance shocks almost everyone who sees him. Elena Yakovleva admitted that she put up with her son's hobby.
And now Denis has decided to get rid of his tattoos. And the removal procedure is many times more painful than getting a tattoo. The guy took the first course, which resulted in him being beaten by his former associates, - "for betrayal".
"My body is my business": Why kids get tattoos and how to deal with it
"Tattoos" do solid businessmen and people of creative professions, students and workers, actors and auto mechanics. After watching people on the streets and on television, teenagers are also becoming interested in tattoos - to the dismay of their parents.
"Why did you do that?!" - adults are indignant when their daughters or sons suddenly show up at home with a tattoo in the most prominent place. "Over my dead body!" - parents declare when children try to hint that they don't mind getting a tattoo.
But where did this youthful trend come from, and how can you protect your child from it?
The body as a canvas
Most kids first start thinking about tattoos at age 15-16. It's understandable - this is the age of teenage rebellion, full of desire to stand out from the crowd. When I was a schoolgirl I wanted to dye my hair black and get piercings, but now my eyebrows have been replaced by eternally painted hands.
- I got a tattoo when I was 15, - says Nadezhda from Amur. - For me it was not a sign of protest. I just saw a tattoo at a friend's and thought I wanted something similar for myself.
Nadezhda's parents did not like the idea. They talked about how awful a tattoo would look in old age, but they didn't hold their ground for long. My daughter managed to persuade them - mom and dad signed the permission and even allocated money for Nadezhda's unexpected hobby.
- I had the tattoo done in a salon - everything as it should be. There is no hidden meaning in it, I just liked the picture, the image of a lion. It's been a year since I made up my mind, and so far I have no regrets - clarifies the girl.
Nicholas tells a very different story. The young man is 22 years old, and now he already has nine tattoos - and this is not the limit. It's hard to believe, but before getting the very first one, Nicholas pondered for two whole years.
- The thought occurred to me at age 15, when I saw a tattoo of another man. But I took my time, thought long and hard to make a conscious decision. I went to a tattoo parlor only when I was 17 years old.
Strange as it may seem, the young man was not asked his age in the professional salon. This could be considered luck, because Nikolai did not ask his guardians for permission. He had a hunch that the adults would take a dim view of his wish. That's what happened in the end, but the guardians couldn't do anything about it and gave up.
- I never regretted my decision in the end," says the young man. - In life, tattoos do not interfere, no one reacts too violently. In many companies, they turn a blind eye to them. I know what I'm talking about. I worked as a receptionist at an upscale place and all the guests were loyal to tattoos.
According to him, the main thing is to do tattoos thoughtfully, not because he saw a beautiful picture. Nikolai himself captures an important period in his life with every tattoo. And the first one, the hieroglyph on his neck, also has a meaning. What it is, Nicholas has chosen to keep silent.
So his parents are not shocked.
Nikolai's story is an exception to the rule. Most tattoo parlors in Blagoveshchensk will not accept minors without a written permission of parents, some of them do not even work with children and teenagers.
- This is not regulated by the law in any way. If the master will suddenly make a child or a teenager tattoo, he will not be punished - just parents will be shocked. But there is such a thing as moral and ethical standards - says tattoo master Denis Plotnikov. - In accordance with these standards, we do not do tattoos for children and adolescents under 18 years of age without written permission of their guardians or parents.
According to him, we often do not have to refuse - teenagers usually come not just with permission, but with the parents themselves. They have time to discuss everything, approve a specific tattoo of a specific size and only then visit the master.
- It was important to me that the tattoo was small and not in a prominent place, but under a blouse," says Elena, whose daughter, a ninth-grader, recently got a "tattoo. - We have been discussing this and the idea of getting a tattoo for a very long time. I am quite loyal to the desire of his daughter to stand out, allowed her to pierce the ears in several places. But the earrings can always be removed, but with tattoos can not - it's forever. And then what to do if the artist is bad or you do not like the picture?
These words seem to express the excitement of every mother whose child has decided to decorate his body with a permanent mark. However, not all of them know how to behave in such a case. Many simply forbid to make a tattoo, but this is fundamentally wrong approach, according to psychologists.
- The only way for parents to change the teenager's mind - to go for a dialogue. If students have not yet decided on their future, you can explain that a tattoo can have unfortunate consequences. For example, the child may not be accepted later in some power structures, the police. You can compromise and together look for another way to express yourself, and offer a temporary tattoo - now this is also trendy. The main thing is by no means necessary to scold and ban, otherwise provoke a desire to act in defiance, - explains psychologist Xenia Makushkina. - And remember: modern society for the most part refers to tattoos loyally. If the child makes a reasonable argument, you can go along with it.
Daughter of Larisa Guseeva - pink hair
Olga, daughter of Larisa Guseeva, during the school vacations dyed her hair in unbelievable colors - pink, green, went around with bright provocative makeup. Then the girl decided to get an ultra-short haircut and looked like a boy.
Larissa Guzeeva admits: better let her daughter to experiment with the appearance of her mother's supervision and with her approval, using high-quality colors, than to do it in secret.
However, recently the girl appeared in a new look - feminine enough to cause compliments from others.
Anastasia Zavorotnyuk's daughter - in the circle of goths
Anna Strukovadaughter Anastasia Zavorotnyuk's daughter, a very attractive girl. Today it is hard to believe, but a few years ago she became very involved in the goth subculture. Anya wore only black clothes, and gave her hair an unnatural white color. Metal collars with spikes, rough army boots, chains...
Of course, the adults could not look calmly at all this, and one day the grandparents simply took away from her granddaughter all her "gadgets" (then, however, returned). The gothic flair disappeared from Anya's appearance when she was 14 years old.
"Orthodox all the way!" Tattooed Children
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Author's column writer, journalist Denis Akhalashvili. - Looking at today's young people, I envy them in a good way: their freedom, communication skills, and new opportunities that we couldn't even dream of. And not because we lived in some kind of totalitarian society, no. We lived in a good society which, for all its faults, took care of the elderly and the children, and everyone had a job. And the country was proud not because some party said so, but because it was really great, fair and strong. I still can't forget the time they played the national anthem on the radio in the morning, and I lay there listening and rejoicing.
But when, for example, I had my hair cut off - but not because I decided to look like some bandit, in those days it was strict with bandits - you could walk around quietly at night and not be afraid of anyone, and many doors were not locked. And I was just doing sports, and it was the most comfortable hairstyle for me. When I went to school, my teacher made a big fuss and called my parents. Or when, for example, in eighth grade, I cut off the sleeves of my uniform, which was boring me with its impersonality, in order to diversify it somehow, they made me buy a new one, because it was a violation of school discipline.
Modern teenagers do not understand this, they can now go to school without a head, no one will say a word against them. I sincerely believe that today's young people are better than us. They are more knowledgeable, better adapted to modern life, actually smarter, more mobile and freer than us. But freedom is a stick with two ends. Freedom without morality very quickly and inevitably becomes permissiveness, and the possibility to do what you want - a terrible cage in which a person becomes locked in indulgence to his passions. It's actually scary when there are no boundaries and no limits-it's like speeding down an icy highway with no warning signs or curbs, where at every turn you can pull over and crash.
Lately I've been seeing a lot of boys and girls literally covered in tattoos from head to toe. To me, that's something off the charts. You meet a smart, beautiful college girl covered in tattoos. It's not even about teenage maximalism and wanting to stand out at least in this way. Spiritually, the tattoo screams of the terrible spiritual state of its owner - it is a diagnosis of the unbelieving soul. It is a direct challenge and protest against God, because for us Christians, any human being is the only, unique image of God, which has never been and never will be in the history of this world again. God created man as he is. His individuality, his dissimilarity, is a great miracle, a hymn to human beauty and uniqueness.
But when a person desecrates his unique image with such pictures, it is as if he says: You know, Lord, I don't need your beauty, your uniqueness that you gave me, I want to be like ... And so on: a famous actor, a singer, a hero from a movie or a reckless friend. And he says, "Keep your freedom for yourself, and I'll be like everyone else. Being like everyone else is the easiest thing to do. There is no need to think, no need to create, no need to strive to realize and increase the talents given by God. It's enough to blend in with the faceless, motley and thoughtless crowd. That's the way it is.
Recorded by Elena Churina.
Nonna Grishaeva's daughter is a comic book heroine.
A hobby Nastyadaughter Nonna Grishaeva's daughter, is called cosplay. The girl goes out in the street in the image of the characters of comics and fantasy, and then and there repainted her hair in different colors: green, red, purple ...
Perhaps such experiments Nastya pushes communication with her peers, with whom she studies at the Department of Graphic Arts at Cambridge University?
In any case, Nonna Grishaeva is happy already that her daughter is limited to dyeing her hair and not getting tattoos.
A recent trend swept the Internet, with children "stuffing" tattoos on their bodies with spray paint to match their tattooed parents. Fancy kids have started getting creative, temporary designs on their arms and chests, and they can wash them off before class after the weekend. Vicki McAdam, 48, of Gateshead, brought the temporary tattoo fashion from America, and it's very popular with ink lovers young and old. Vicki said: "They're little, but little kids love to have tattoos like their mom and dad. "You just look at their faces when they look at themselves in the mirror. It's not transferable." "They absolutely love their airbrush tattoos. One little boy pulled his arm out of the tub so the tattoo wouldn't wash off."
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"It's all a little bit of fun, and it's more and more fun to like it." Airbrush tattoos look so real that they baffle those with authentic ink drawings." Tattoos are created with stencils, and Vicki knows how to use it to do an entire arm. She also does single-use spray tattoos, if necessary. They last up to five days, depending on how well you take care of them. Vicky charges £30 per hand if she works in her home. Other than that, she can go to people's homes and that will already cost £100 an hour or £120 for two hours if there is a group of four or more people. Even tattoo artist Wayne Fisher, 26, who works at Tattoo House Black Friers, and his wife, Jade, who are both painted from head to toe, went to Vicki's house so she could paint their three-year-old daughter, Jazmin. Jade, 29, said: "We read about Vicki and realized she was fantastic." "Wayne is covered in tattoos, and I have them on my neck, chin, arms, back, legs, everywhere really."
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"Jazmin goes to the tattoo studio and helps Wayne clean up and give people candy. She grew up with tattoos and knows nothing else. But now she goes to preschool and sees other moms and dads who don't have tattoos." "We decided that these hand drawings would appeal to Jazmine and so did we. She loves it." Father Phil Pigal, 36, painted his 5-year-old daughter Anna's arm to look like his. The mother of Ashley Booth, 38, of Blyth, Northumberland, said: "I told my daughter Anna's teacher that she was going to get a tattoo," she said. "She went to school and her teacher said Anna should tell her story to everyone in the 'news' and share her experience. To show her classmates what a spray tattoo she had." "She was so proud, and I thought it was so cute that the teacher saw it from that angle."
Irina Saltykova's daughter - rock tattoo
On the back and arms of Alisa - daughter Irina Saltykova - Painted numerous tattoos. For the first time the young rock singer appeared in such an image in front of the public in November 2016.
Her star mother's cardinal changes in her daughter's appearance first caused amazement, and then, having coped with her emotions a little, Irina accepted Alisa's choice.
Would you allow your children to radically change their appearance - to paint their hair in an unusual color, to make a noticeable tattoo?
Dear readers, such experiments should be carried out only in consultation with experts.
